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• #Making gradients in gimp 2.8.22 install

Select the item “File – Export…” from the main menu. The dialog will disappear and control will return to the main window.ħ. In the “Indexed Color Conversion” dialog that appears, click the “Generate optimum palette” radio button, enter the value “255” in the “Maximum number of colors” box, and select the value “None” in the “Color dithering” box. Select the item “Image – Mode – Indexed” from the main menu. The layers in the Layers pane will be renamed and prepared for export as an animated GIF.Ħ. Select the item “Filters – Animation – Optimize (for GIF)” from the main menu. Delete the dummy layer created in step 3.5 by right-clicking it in the “Layers” pane and selecting the item “Delete Layer” from the context menu that appears.ĥ. The Open Image dialog will disappear, control will return to the main GIMP window, and each loaded image file will be displayed as a layer in the “Layers” pane.Ĥ.5. Then select all the image files in the list box and and click the “Open” button. If necessary, click the “Name” column header on the list box to sort the files in the correct order. In the “Open Image” dialog that appears, navigate to the directory that contains the image files for the animation’s frames. In GIMP, select the item “File – Open as Layers” from the main menu.

This creates a “dummy” layer, which will later be removed, that prevents the bug I mentioned from happening.Ĥ. To work around this bug, within GIMP, select the item “File – New” from the main menu, specify the appropriate image size (64 x 64 for the images included with this tutorial), and then click the OK button. See the comments of the post for details. Due to a bug within later versions of GIMP 2.8, the next step will no longer work correctly without a workaround. If desired, enable single-window mode by selecting the item “Windows – Single-Window Mode” from the main menu bar.ģ.5. Start GIMP, and wait for it to finish loading. Place all the images in a single directory, and name each file with a common prefix and a numeric suffix so that they sort in the correct order (for example, “Frame01.png”, “Frame02.png”, “Frame03.png” and so on).ģ. Create the frames of your animation as image files, in any file format that GIMP recognizes (for example. As of this writing, the latest version is 2.8, and it is available at the URL.

#Making gradients in gimp 2.8.22 install

If you have not already done so, download and install GIMP.